London: W.H. Carpenter, 1820. First Edition. 4to, frontispiece, xxxix, 501 [1, errata]; contemporary three-quarter red leather and marbled boards. A contemporary and friend of Pope, Spence was a respected schoalr. His best known work is this posthumously published collection literary anecdotes that informed much subsequent scholarship on eighteenth-century literature. More

New York: Warner Books, 1992. First Edition. 4to, 128pp; spiral bound in anodized aluminum covers. A sensation upon publication at the peak of the pop star's popularity, this compendium of sexual fantasies written by Madonna and edited by O'Brien is illustrated with photographs by Steven Meisel with art direction by..... More

Andernach: Burn Again Press, 1990. First Edition. 8vo, unpag.; light green boards with printed labels on front cover and spine. One of fifty numbered copies signed by Bukowski, the entire edition, published ostensibly in the town of his birth in Germany and marking his seventieth birthday. One of Bukowski's scarcer..... More

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1998. First Edition. 8vo, 144pp; cloth-backed pictorial boards. One of 400 numbered copies handbound in boards, signed by Bukowski, and with an original signed color serigraph portrait of Bukowski by R. Crumb bound in at the front. More

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. First Edition. 8vo, 283pp; cloth-backed pictorial boards. One of 750 hardcover trade copies (there were also 350 numbered and signed hardcover copies), this one has been signed by Bukowski on the title page. More

Liverpool: Printed by J. M'Creery; for T. Cadell, et al. 1802. First Edition. 4to, [uv], i-iv, [1]-487pp; 19th-century marbled boards with gilt calf spine and corners; a.e.g. Account of the life of the Renaissance humanist responsible for the rescue of important works of classical literature. Most notably, Poggio found the..... More

New York: 1980. Single 8-1/2 X 11 inch leaf of Doubleday letterhead; matted and framed. A charming handwritten letter to a Newsweek editor, complimenting her article about fashion icon Diana Vreeland's just-published book Allure, which Onassis edited. "She and I might not have the most objective view of it all-..... More

Edinburgh: William Blackwood... 1818. First Edition. Three vols., 8vos; [iv], [1], 317; [vi], [1], 314; [iv], [1], 343pp; contemporary calf with gilt spines; marbled edges and endpapers. A decent set, without foxing, of the first of Ferrier's three novels of Scottish life, issued anonymously. More

London: Jonathan Cape, (1983). First Edition. 8vo, 287pp; black cloth. A pristine copy of Rushdie's third novel, following on the Booker Prize-winning Midnight's Children. This copy is signed by Rushdie on the title page, and has the publisher's "with compliments" slip laid in. More

Tokyo: Shinchosa, 1954. First Edition. 8vo, 240pp; original yellow cloth with attractive suminagashi endpapers. Scarce first edition of one of Mishima's most celebrated novels -- a shorter version was published later in the same year. This volume appeared as the fourth in the publisher's series of featured novels by contemporary..... More

New York: Orgone Institute Press, 1945. First English-language edition. 8vo, 273pp; light gray cloth. More

London: Chatto & Windus, (1873). First Edition. 8vo, 483pp; original brown cloth gilt. A history of the English book trade through stories of individual firms. With the ownership stamp (on the title page) and bookplate (on the front pastedown) of Egerton Castle, writer, antiquarian, and champion fencer who was captain..... More

[Winston Salem, NC]: Palaemon Press Limited, 1982. Broadside, approx. 9 X 12-1/2 in., printed on one side only in two colors. Separate edition of the poem that appeared in the collection From the First Nine, one of an unspecified number of copies, signed by the poet. More